Making a frame stay on top sometimes

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I’m using STAY_ON_TOP in the style when I create my Frame app so it is
always on top, and it works fine. What I want, though, is for the Frame
to
stay on top under some conditions, but behave normally under other
conditions. I don’t see any set_style method for Frame that would let
me
turn the STAY_ON_TOP behavior on and off dynamically. Is there any way
to
do this?

Eric R.

2

Hi Eric

Eric R. wrote:

I’m using STAY_ON_TOP in the style when I create my Frame app so it is
always on top, and it works fine. What I want, though, is for the
Frame to stay on top under some conditions, but behave normally under
other conditions. I don’t see any set_style method for Frame that
would let me turn the STAY_ON_TOP behavior on and off dynamically. Is
there any way to do this?

From my reading of wxWidgets discussions, there’s no way to change the
style flags of a Window (inc Frame) after it’s been created. This is
because changes are not guaranteed to be honoured on all platforms.

The way round this in your circumstance might be to have two frames,
with one hidden and one shown at any time. One has the STAY_ON_TOP
style, the other not. When you want to change the STAY_ON_TOP behaviour:

  1. hide the currently shown frame
  2. reparent that frame’s top-level content (eg Panel) to the other frame
  3. move the frame you’re about to show to the same size and position
  4. show the previously hidden frame

hth
alex

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Thanks, but I just noticed that there is a Window#set_window_style_flag
which seems like it would do what I want. I think I’ll give that a try.
If
it doesn’t work I might try your two frames solution.

Eric

4

Looks like Window#set_window_style_flag allows me to turn STAY_ON_TOP on
and
off (in MS Windows).

Eric

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Eric R. wrote:

Looks like Window#set_window_style_flag allows me to turn STAY_ON_TOP on and
off (in MS Windows).

Ah, thanks, I thought there was some method that did this but couched in
warnings about changes to some flags on some platforms not being
honoured.

Useful to know that this one is - much neater solution.

alex